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While i agree about the opinions (though i doubt that those generals who were mostly right wingers would be more left wing, quit the contrary), the problem with Leclerc is that he was would barely be in his forties during the war, which is really young in the very conservative French military...

A republican ? Really ? De Gaulle was a member of the Action Française, a radical reactionnary monarchist group. He became a "republican" because becoming the supreme leader of France when you are not the king is hard in a monarchy. He was also rabidly anti-parliamentarian. Yes the Action...

Well if he his lucky he would be a Commandant by the time of the French civil war, but this would be quick i think. It seems that it took 10 years to be promoted from Capitaine to Commandant (it took ten years for Juin, twelve for de Gaulle, 11 for de Lattre de Tassigny), but suppose he is, even...

Stupid question but what rank is Leclerc when he fights along Monty in Iberia ? Because it seems to be implied that he is a general which would be quite strange given that his rise OTL was due to the lack of general officers in the France Libre, after all he was only promoted to Commandant...

Franco is never going to go to war, never. He never liked Hitler, his army was crap, he depended upon the US goodwill to buy food abroad, and he didn't want to lose his colonies. Malta didn't fall in OTL and won't fall in a scenario where the Allies are stronger and where the luftwaffe is...

Crossing five times the distance with less air superiority (10min loiter time over Tunis for the bf 109, and worse logistics) is easier ?

a few years i guess, France had the second biggest gold reserve after the UK. In 1939 it had more gold than every axis country together.

2250 combat aircrafts vs 500 combat aircrafts.

A few points : -North African infrastructure was crap. There is no way that the Germans can maintain a force sufficient enough to stop the Germans at the Atlas against US truck based logistics. The Casablanca to Tunis railway was single track with very few rolling stock given that it was taken...

What Mccarthysm and red scare in France ? France was almost bankrupt in 1919, and it ended it's intervention in Russia because it's troops were actually mutinying. And after WWI, at it's lowest point a quarter of the french were socialist or communist. You can't make war against a quarter of...

I don't see what is the problem. Romano-brittish culture might not be purely celtic, it still was very much celtic, even if if it had large roman influence (especilaly among the nobility). A smaller germanic invasion even if not beaten might follow a similar pattern as France where the leaders...

IIRC it is already established that the UASR had become the n°1 place in the world for café culture, surpassing France, as political activities after work being almost universal, workers don't have time to cook for themselves and so go to various restaurants and café to feed themselves.

There is also the thing that people rarely convert from Catholicism in France. They just abandon it. There are also a large number of agnostic catholics, ie cultural catholics, people who identify as catholics culturally but don't really believe in the liturgy. Barely 5% of the french...

They didn't want to be occupied by the USSR. Saying that you are surrendering because of someone give them greater leeway to ask for an occupation zone in the country that surrendered. They had two option (three if they cite both) and chose the less detestable to them.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Trotskyists parties were not that popular, well, anywhere. There were a few trotskyists deputies in France in 1936 (in the PUP i think) but they were a small minority, like everywhere. You need a very early PoD for that, which would probably change the Soviet...

Well, if you want a counter argument you can chose Portugal and Korea on one hand and Switzerland and the US in the other. This basically prove that ethnic homogeneity isn't necessary (neither does a common language). Having a sense of belonging to the same country is good, but not the only...

You mean telling that they are developing them and then not building them ? The most recently aircraft that entered service is the JF-17, which is basically a super upgraded MiG-21. All other "stealth" prototypes (J-20, J-31 PAK FA) seem to have stealth features, but far less than the US planes...

You really believe there is such a thing as journalist "objectivity" ? Everytime there is an analysis by a journalist, their bias are showing. Objectivity don't exist except if you describe facts. Everyone has an opinion. I prefer a journalist that don't hide it than corporate man try to push...

There was already a lot of French Forces in NA. IIRC in Tunisia alone there was as much troops as there was in Tripolitania. Add to that the double in Algeria, and as much in Morocco. And far more artillery. And far more (actual) tanks. Also the Italians had large supply problems (IIRC there was...

Just a quip, i know nothing about the subject, but if it is research for a project, why would Stalin give up what is basically "free" territory ? Stalin knew the state of the Japanese forces in Manchuria and Korea, and he knew that his forces were more than enough to deal with them. Even Truman...